------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRI Continental Film Festival - Dona Paula, Goa, Sep 28 - Oct 2, 2007
http://www.moviesgoa.org/tricontinental/tricon.htm For public viewing. Registration at The International Centre Goa. (Ph: +91-832-2452805 to 10) Online Media Partner: http://www.GOANET.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Dear Arjun ESS and Ors. At the outset, let me 'Congratulate you Goans' for being concerned about your mother Goa and what is happening to her, the multiple rape, I mean. The series of questions that will arise in anyone Goan's mind are : ?Who is this Charlie - Floriano Lobo- to CONGRATULATE me/us?. ? Am I/we not the mother's sons/daughters? ?Do we not feel for her? ?Does he think that he has the 'monopoly' just because he is with a political party and feels acerbic because he has contested GLA Elections on two counts and has not even cleared the 500 votes mark? ?How dare this Floriano guy be so casual and sarcastic about what we have in mind for our mother Goa? Well, well. It is not like that at all. I fully understand that you people have had a lot of time to study what Goa Su-Raj is all about. And I also know that you people will not dismis outright what Floriano is talking about. That 'TALKING' is talking and 'DOING' is doing. We at Goa Su-Raj have shown that we care for our mother Goa not by just words but real deeds. Also, by cementing those thoughts into writing of the CONSTITUTION of the Party, which no other party, not only in Goa but also in the rest of India, can afford to have (at least until now) My initial reference to the 'coconut tree' and the 'making out with a girl' was my way of saying that ' wishful thinking' is wishful thinking, but action remains actions. There is nothing more to it than that. And I want you to believe that. Such was the confrontation - a literal war of words - that saw the formation of the Goa Su-Raj Party. This has remained with me for the past over 8 years except for casual references during deep discussions. But I shall let the cat out publicly now that I see some hope, a pin-prick of light on Goa's Goan's horizon. In the year 1999, Navhind Times came out with a series of articles called the 'Good Governance' series authored by NT's Asst. Editor......... wherein Goa's most prominent personages including politicians were profiled. Shashikala, Rane, Dr. Wilfred D'Souza, General (retd) Sunith Rodrigues et al. I used to religiously follow these series when the eclipse came when Gen. Sunith was profiled. He talked about a lot of things about politics of which I was not too particular about. But the words he ended with got me up and looking for the General's telephone number. I got him. It was 3 or 4 in the evening. "General" I said , after the initial pleasantries and intro etc. (I had never met him or spoken to him before) " In your interview you have said that in the Army your normal slogan is 'DO YOU HAVE IT'. "May I respectfully ask you, General, if you have it yourself???" I don't have to tell you what happened next. All hell broke loose. Ultimately it ended with the General hosting the first of the eleven brainstorming sessions that took place, at the International Center, Dona Paula, of which he was the Chairman. The Good General is presently the Punjab's Governor and remains a good friend of the Goa Su-Raj Party. We at Goa Su-Raj Party believe that what is going on in Goa as development is far from it. If this continues, it will dry us Goans like Bombay Ducks - Bommils. Goa needs all round PLANNED INFRUSTRUCTURE in place. If that be done, Goa's development will be automatic. It will not take the nonsensical slogans like 'Aam Aadmi' and India's No1. State to camouflage the rot when Goa does not even know how and where to dispose off its diapers. To change all this what is happening to Amchem Goem, we Goenkars must brush aside the riff-raff who call themselves Goa's Legislators and replace them with serious, down to earth sons of Goa who will give more than they will want to receive. Did someone called this a 'self-sacrifice??? CAN GOA DO THAT? If need be, without those awful and rusty 'Les Guillotines'??? BTW: Goa Su-Raj invites you, one and all, for the release of its Monthly Publication - The 'GOA SENTINEL' [GOEM RAKHNNO], a free tabloid (initially 4 pages)- on Gandhi Jayanti - 2 October- 2007 - at Manvin's Hotel's Roof-Garden, Panjim, at 5 p.m. Did someone ask "how will it survive'??? Did that someone tell you that in Goa, there is a lot of fresh air and good will??? My best regards to all, down to earth, Goans who think and will think in terms of GOA. floriano goasuraj ----- Original Message ----- From: amchemgoem amkamzai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 1:59 AM Subject: [Goanet] Lets get together....and start a small revolution ( aminor diversion ) > Dear Goans, > Thanks a million for all the messages of support being sent privately to me > at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > While i would be wasting the valuable time and energy of readers and > contributors to this forum by engaging in a war of words with individual > critics of my central theme,I felt ( after a considerable amount of thought > and discussion with my colleagues ) that I need to clarify a few points in > response to the posting by Mr Floriano Lobo. > I can undertand Floriano-Bab's pessimism and the vitriolic tone to his > posting. I was in Goa at the time of the last assembly elections and have > witnessed at close quarters the virtual > helplessness good persons like him have encountered in the electoral process > ( i would strongly advise goanet readers to go to the Goa Su-Raj website and > read Floriano-Bab's post election ramblings where he presents a vivid and > stark picture of the actual scenario faced by a candidate,however decent a > human being he is, who does not have money and muscle power to combat the > uncontrollably corrupt and well entrenched system in Goa ) > Specifically,in response to your comments,Floriano-Bab, > 1) The greatest revolutions witnessed in history have not involved > guillotines or bombs....they have involved like thinking good people > getting together for a good cause > 2) If you read my my initial posting, you will note that I do not believe in > creating a pseudo feel good factor in Goa with technological leaps in terms > of fancy mobiles /broadband from pernem to canacona etc or for that matter > poltical stunts to capture vote banks by repairing temples and > churches........our first priority should be to provide a basic > infrastructure in terms of water,electricity,health ,education,transport etc > to every corner of Goa. > 3)Finally,my sincere apologies are due to you for the offence i seem to have > caused you because i am based outside Goa......but i do hope you undertand > there is an invisible umbilical cord which seems to bind people of Goan > origin ( including those 2nd and 3rd generation goans who have been born and > brought up in East Africa , Europe , America's or for that matter anywhere > in this world ) to our motherland....a phenomenon which you will not see to > such an extent in those who have moved abroad from other parts of India. > Mog Asundi, > Arjun Eklawya Sadiq-Saldanha > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.5/147 - Release Date: 10/24/05 > >
